not for love or money

well, I would like to say that what I really want to be doing is finishing that stack of reversible ruffle dresses.

 but really what I wast to be doing is eating this:

and I can't get them anywhere on the internet, at least that I can find.  they are - in my mind - the tastiest chocolate bars ever, currently based on the fact that they are carefully packaged in beautiful paper, which is another thing I hoard in rubbermaid bins under the bed.  these lovelies are made in brooklyn, by the Mast Brothers and if you know of anyone who will mail them to me, I'll share.

yard sale!

my mom and I are incredible yardsalers.  we used to get up at 6.30 am when I was in highschool to make the rounds, and now she just comes to visit me on weekend mornings in the lovely old residential neighbourhood I'm living in.  there are always yard sales around here, and lots of wonderful treasures. 

 this quilt was one of those things that I saw first thing in the morning, and didn't buy, but it haunted me so much that we went back later,and it was still there.  I love it - it is made of old wool blankets and men's suiting, and has another wool blanket as the batting, and green flannel backing and trim.  such an unusual colour combo.

it reminds me of my new favorite little mug, made by my friend Martina Lantin who is doing her MFA at NSCAD.  it is just the right size, and has the nicest indentation on the bottom covered in tera sigilatta which makes it smooth and wonderful to touch.

new booth

since getting accepted into the Circle Craft show in Vancouver, I've been thinking about designing a new booth, one that is easily transportable and that I can put up by myself.

  

above is my booth from the Spring One of a Kind Show, which I love dearly, but the large hardwall panels require me to rent a panel van or cube van, and rope someone into both hauling 4' x 8' panels and put them up with me.  shipping them to Vancouver would have been abominable expensive, and the fancy wallpaper on them probably would have been ruined.  i decided to screen print panels, and I came up with a Damask-style pattern related to my Iznik flower drawings, and a wood grain pattern on the bottom half, to keep the 'room' feel that i loved aboutmy first booth.  i also kept the colours [or lack of] the same, a cream on white.  this is a little hard to see, but here is a peek.

ted helped me to screenprint my new bags as well, which was far more difficult than I'd thought, as the crease in the bag interrupted the original design no matter how hard we pressed.  we made a compromise, and took out the drawing [unfortunately] and left just the text on the un-creased part.  i still love them, and the colours as well.